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| A collection of stories that shine with poetry and magic which is suitable for children young and old. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| Publisher | Penguin Books LTD, Puffin Classics |
| ISBN-10 | 0141327790 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780141327792 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 89669169 |
| Product Key Features | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 143g |
| Width | 129mm |
| Height | 178mm |
| Additional Product Features | |
| Introduction by | Markus Zusak |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Genre | Children’s Fiction |
| Pagination | 224 |
| Illustrator(s) | Lars Bo |
| Series | Puffin Classics |
| Author Biography | Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or ‘Art for Art’s Sake’) Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies – Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas’s father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900. |
| Country of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Topic | Children’s & Young Adult Fiction |
| Spine | 14mm |
| Date of Publication | 27/10/1994 |
| BOOK TITLE | The Happy Prince and Other Stories |
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| ITEM HEIGHT | 178mm |
| ITEM WIDTH | 129mm |
| ILLUSTRATOR | Lars Bo |
| AUTHOR | Oscar Wilde |
| FORMAT | Paperback |
| LANGUAGE | English |
| PUBLISHER | Penguin Random House Children's United Kingdom |
| PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| GENRE | Children & Young Adults |
| ITEM WEIGHT | 190g |
| NUMBER OF PAGES | 224 Pages |
| MPN | 178mm 129mm Lars Bo 1994 e2b09283-91 |
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